Portable container for toilet requisites and other small articles



Feb 24, 1931. N MQNTGOMERY 1,794,118

PORTABLE CONTAINER FOR TOILET REQUISI'IES AND OTHER SMALL ARTICLES Filed Jan. 12. 1929 /;v VEN fi Q/V MONTGOMERY Patented Feb. 24, 1931 DOROTHY NEVILLE MONTGOMERY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND PORTABLE CONTAINER FOR TOILET REQUISITES AN D OTHER SMALL ARTICLES Application filed January 12, 1929, Serial No. 331,988, and in Great Britain August 13, 1928.

This invention relates to toilet articles, such as lip-sticks, powder-puffs, eye-brow pencils and the like, and to other small articles (for example, containers for snufi', pastilles, etc.) such as may be carried about by men or women.

The invention relates particularly to such articles or devices as are often carried by women, in whose garments, owing to the dietates of fashion, there is at the present time not infrequently a dearth of pockets for the reception of such devices. Difficulties arise when hand-bags and the like receptacles are relied upon for carrying these devices, owing to these receptacles not always being at hand when a particular device is required.

It is the primary object of the present invention to avoid this disadvantage: but the invention has other objects; namely, to provide a simple and relatively-inexpensive receptacle for such articles above indicated, and, moreover, a receptacle which can be very conveniently carried about by attachment to the garments and which is, furthermore, ornamental and of pleasing appearance.

According to the invention one or more of these toilet requisites or the like articles is or are located in a casing of a particular type of construction which is adapted to form the body of a tie-pin or safety-pin.

Any pleasing design may be placed upon the exterior surface of the casing, and the same may be coloured or not. I may use a decoration comprising a number of difi'erent coloured pieces of enamel fitted to the surface of the casing. Such a decoration may be located on the centre of the casing, and, it may be bounded by circular ridges round the casing.

'The tubular casings above-referred to may be of oval or like section, or they may be of rectangular or polygonal section, or of other shapes.

Examples according to the invention, are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is an elevation of an embodiment of the invention, Fig. 2 being a similar view of a part of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 a plan of the part shown in Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawings, 10 indicates generally a hollow casing of circular, oval or rectangular cross-section near one end of which is hinged at 11 the spike or pin 12, the free end of which co-operates with the hook 153 towards the other end of the cusing, by which means the casing can be pinned to the users garments. In the present instance the casing comprises two portions 15, 16 carrying, respectively, the pin 12 and hook 13. Portion 16 is here indicated as being adapted as a holder for an eyebrow-pencil or lip-stick, not shown, the same fitting in to the carrier or socket 17 which is slidable within portion 16 by means of the stud l8 disposed inthe groove 19 in the end portion 16.

Part 15 is mainly of channel or U-shape, the opening of the channel or U being closed (when the device is fitted, together) by the extending wall 2:2 on the tubular part of the end portion 16. To separate the two end portions they are slid away from one another until the restricted end 23 of end portion 16 is clear of the socket 24 of end portion 15, when the remaining part of end portion 16 can be moved through the opening of the bhanncl or U of the end portion 15. Wall 22 may be a mirror so that when the eyebrow pencil or rouge-stick is being applied the operation can be correctly achieved by means of the mirror appropriately held in the users other hand.

The whole forms of a brooch which can be pinned upon a womans garment. lVhen the contents of the brooch are to be used the pin 12 is unhooked from loop 13 and the operative end portion 16 withdrawn, the remaining part of the brooch either being left hanging on the garment or being detached to prevent it from accidentally falling.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent .1. In combination, a tubular casing, a detachable end piece having a restricted portion slidable in said casing, a carrier slidable within said end piece, a hook formed externally on said end piece and co-operating with a spike pivotally mounted on said casing, the-casing having a portion of its side wall cut away to allow the restricted portion of said end piece to pass therethrough, said end piece having an extended wall adapted to cover the opening in said side wall when the end piece is in position.

2. As an article of manufacture, a container for toilet requisites comprising a tubular casing, a detachable end piece having a restricted ortion slidable in said casing, a

toilet-article holding device slidable withinsaid end piece, a hook formed externally on a stud on said holding device.

DOROTHY NEVILLE MONTGOMERY. 

